Video: Adding a border effect

If you take a look at the vintage set of presets, you'll find that some of those presets include interesting borders around the edge of the photo and those borders can be applied with one of the finishing adjustments options. It's called, of course, image borders. And we can start off by choosing a particular preset from the image borders pop-up. You'll see that they're just simply numbered, but as you mouse over each of the individual options, you'll see the effect within the photo. Once you've found an effect that you like, you can select it, of course, just by clicking on that particular option from the pop-up.

This course guides you through the features and options available for producing creative black-and-white interpretations of your photos in Silver Efex Pro 2, part of the Nik Collection from Google. Author Tim Grey takes a look at all the darkroom-inspired controls, including selective adjustments, film effects, color toning, vignettes, and borders.

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Adding a border effect

If you take a look at the vintage set ofpresets, you'll find that some of those presets include interestingborders around the edge of the photo and those borderscan be applied with one of the finishing adjustments options.It's called, of course, image borders.And we can start off by choosinga particular preset from the image borders pop-up.You'll see that they're just simply numbered, but as you mouse overeach of the individual options, you'll see the effect within the photo.Once you've found an effect that you like, you can select it,of course, just by clicking on that particular option from the pop-up.

But, you can fine-tune the overall effect byexpanding the set of controls under image borders.Simply, click the triangle to the left of image borders, and you'll seethat we can adjust the size, spread, and cleanliness of the overall result.If we adjust the size, you'll see that it determines how far intothe image that border extends, in other words, how big is that border?I'll go ahead and leave it relatively largeso that we can better see the effect.We can also adjust the spread which is essentially the size ofthe actual transition effect, in this case, the dark area around that border.

I can reduce the value to make a smaller darkedge and increase the value to make a larger dark edge.And I can also adjust the cleanliness of the result.We can have a very rough result, or a relatively smooth result.A value closer to clean essentially looks likethe result has been blurred a little bit.In this case, I'll go ahead and stick with a rough option, and then I'll zoom in onthe image and navigate toward one of the corners,so that we can see the effect a little more.I'll move that navigator out of the way,and, I'm going to click the very border button.

And what that will do is apply somerandomization to the actual shape of the border effect.I'll go ahead and click, and click, and click.And you can see that we're getting a variable result.And the beauty of this is that we canapply a similar effect to multiple images without itlooking like a cookie cutter result, like we justused the exact same effect for every single image.The final effect does tend to look a little bit vintage.Of course, it helps in this case that I've appliedan effect with a sepia tone type of color tint.

But, for a variety of different images, you may find that these borderscan be very helpful for establishing or enhancing a mood for a particular image.

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